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When your own company isn’t cutting it, it’s time to make friends with a Chinese restaurant menu. 2. Shop Online. There’s nothing wrong with a little retail therapy—just be sure to spend ...
Grab your apron and create something tasty on your own — or take a cue from The Great British Baking Show and experience the joy of baking with a buddy. 17. Brush up on your basic life skills.
The word, however, has been attested since at least 1829 in an issue of the publication The Albion. [8] The French term for boredom, ennui, is sometimes used in English as well, at least since 1778. The term ennui was first used "as a French word in English;" in the 1660s and it was "nativized by 1758". [9]
Flow is an innately positive experience known to "produce intense feelings of enjoyment". [19] An experience that is so enjoyable should lead to positive affect and happiness in the long run. Also, Csikszentmihályi stated that happiness is derived from personal development and growth– and flow situations permit the experience of personal ...
Image credits: Kookabanus #2. They punished my son for being bored and looking out the window by canceling his math instruction. He was in first grade and very advanced in math.
The symptoms of boreout lead employees to adopt coping or work-avoidance strategies that create the appearance that they are already under stress, suggesting to management both that they are heavily "in demand" as workers and that they should not be given additional work: "The boreout sufferer's aim is to look busy, to not be given any new work by the boss and, certainly, not to lose the job."
Image credits: MandaPandaLee #6. A bit similar to yours, I walked all the way to a nearby village, about 4 miles to meet a girl when I was about 16. I didn’t have money for the bus but didn’t ...
Image credits: jimmio92 #2. My favorite one was an account of an event on the work forums. A manager was working through a transaction with a couple. Whenever the man was asked a question, his ...